Central American Migration: New Concerns As Numbers Rise One Year After Unprecedented Influx

*This news has been less than a trickle in mainstream media. The presidential horse race, today’s poll, whatever Trump said and the fear of terrorism have taken over the headlines and airtime. Yesterday the Secretary of Health and Human Services told a congressional committee that her department doesn’t have enough money to cope with the number of kids and families coming to the border. This could become the summer of 2014 all over again. VL


Fronteras-LogoBy Lorne Matalone, Fronteras

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The line of the hopeful forms every weekday morning at the American Embassy in San Salvador.

The scene is both intense and poignant. A line of several dozen families snakes its way along a sidewalk across the street. Infants are wailing in their parents’ arms as clouds of black diesel spewed by passing trucks envelop the crowd. A few feet away, heavily-armed Salvadoran police patrol the embassy perimeter.

The would-be migrants are waiting for their turn to launch a formal application to enter the United States.

That scene unfolds against a backdrop of new statistics from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that some analysts believe may portend a new surge of Central American migrants.

In October, the number of unaccompanied minors from Central America almost doubled compared to the same month in October 2014. And in September of this year, there was an exponential increase of attempted crossings by unaccompanied children compared to September 2014. DHS says nearly 4,500 unaccompanied minors were stopped, an 85-percent increase.

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[Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol/Flickr]

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